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Monday, 18 March 2013

Good-bye

The Crown and Goose is a perfect place for Sunday lunch, and for twenty years has been a lovely cosy place to have a drink and chat with your mates. Sadly this will only last for a few more weeks.
The locals and the Camden Council have been battling to save their pub from the wrecking ball of the developers.
The battle is lost. The building owners Barclay's Discretionary Trust have won the court battle which will see the Crown and Goose demolished to make way for the property developers.

The management and staff of the pub welcome you for a last tipple before the doors close for the last time.

It's a shame but they are not used as much as they were what with cheap booze from the super markets and the price pubs charge. What once were centres of the community are fast disappearing. I think the Government missed a trick, they could have increased the duty on off sales and decreased it for pubs thereby making it cheaper to drink in them, keeping them open and maintaining employment.

What a shame Mo, looks one of those English pubs I loved when I visited London. Can't imagine what they build in its place will be nearly as inviting. Glad to hear that you're feeling a little bit better, look after yourself!

It looks like such a pretty old brick building. I think we all lose a little part of ourselves when old places like this with history and character are lost. Councils too often make decisions based on increased tax revenues, not cultural heritage.